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if nintendo pivoted to rereleasing the game boy advance and developing comparatively low-budget, easy-to-develop games and selling them for $30 apiece, they would make
@Lady Than? (I think if they did it well, they'd make additional money, but probably not more than "releasing the already-planned Switch 2 and new high production value versions of their popular franchises". Especially because they've probably already sunk a bunch of money into them. Also Nintendo has a reputation for not losing money on their consoles, whereas the other game consoles tend to do that and try to make it up on games.)
more money:
• can make games faster and cheaper
• can sell games to people who can’t afford $70/game and thus reach a wider audience
• GBA games are better and so should sell better
• GBA games are better and so will drive merchandising opportunities more than switch games
• lower development barriers = more exclusive third-party titles, driving sales
less money:
• GBA games are worse for performative gaming (streaming) and so have less cultural cachet
• the price of games is so disconnected from the costs of producing them that anything you can do to make charging $70 justified is worth it
• can't cash in on ports of iOS games
• most gamers only buy prestige games meaning they won’t consider anything cheap or technically simple